intermontane in a sentence
Examples
- Like the earlier buildup of the Intermontane Islands, this island arc connected to the Intermontane Belt as magma solidified and rose beneath the arc.
- Like the earlier buildup of the Intermontane Islands, this island arc connected to the Intermontane Belt as magma solidified and rose beneath the arc.
- It is located near the headwaters of the South Platte in Park County, Colorado and drains part of the intermontane grassland basin of South Park.
- This fault separates the easternmost portion of the North Cascades, the Methow Terrane, from the Quesnellia Terrane, one of the Omineca and Intermontane Belts.
- The "'Cariboo "'is an intermontane region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains.
- Physiographically, they are a section of the larger Yukon-Tanana Uplands province, which in turn are part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division.
- They are similar to rocks found in the Hazelton Group, situated north of the Itcha Range, and the Ootsa Lake Group of the Intermontane Belt.
- These oceanic rocks were derived from the seafloor of the prehistoric Slide Mountain Ocean, the Intermontane Plate, which was subducted under the North American plate.
- The corresponding " physiographic " noun is alpine region would be an intermontane for a species that migrates between a glacial region and a subalpine region.
- Therefore, the intermontane areas of the cordillera can be divided up into the areas east of the Nevadan belt, and those west of the Nevadan belt.